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NEWS & LETTERS, May 2002
Memphis King marchMemphis, Tenn.—On April 4, in
commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr's. death, over 200, mostly
African-Americans, marched in "A Day of Remembrance" parade from the
AFSCME hall through a poor Black Memphis neighborhood to the Civil Rights
Museum. Though the march has become controversial in the last years as more
energy has been put into the commemoration of Dr. King's birth, there are those
in Memphis who feel both dates must be acknowledged. While the famous "I am a
man" posters were everywhere in evidence, a group of young Black women
carried handmade "I am a woman" signs. One read: "I am a
mother." When I asked the leader of this group if the women didn't feel
that women were included in the "I am a man" signs, she replied that
while the group's leaders had their own views, they felt that it should be up to
the young women to decide. —Women's Liberationist |
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